8 So she wrote letters in Aʹhab’s name and sealed them with his seal+ and sent the letters to the elders+ and the nobles who lived in Naʹboth’s city. 9 She wrote in the letters: “Proclaim a fast, and have Naʹboth sit at the head of the people. 10 And have two good-for-nothing men sit in front of him and testify against him,+ saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king!’+ Then bring him out and stone him to death.”+

11 So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did just as was written in the letters that Jezʹe·bel sent to them.

4 The princes said to the king: “Please have this man put to death,+ for this is how he is weakening the morale* of the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as that of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man seeks, not the peace of this people, but their calamity.” 5 King Zed·e·kiʹah replied: “Look! He is in your hands, for the king cannot do anything to stop you.”